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Roberto Burguet
Researcher at University of Central Florida
Publications - 57
Citations - 1252
Roberto Burguet is an academic researcher from University of Central Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Common value auction & Auction theory. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 57 publications receiving 1174 citations. Previous affiliations of Roberto Burguet include Barcelona Graduate School of Economics & El Colegio de México.
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Competitive procurement with corruption
Roberto Burguet,Yeon-Koo Che +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study competitive procurement administered by a corrupt agent who is willing to manipulate his evaluation of contract proposals in exchange for bribes, and show that bribery makes it costly for the efficient firm to secure a sure win.
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Imperfect competition in auction designs
Roberto Burguet,József Sákovics +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the competition between two owners of identical goods who wish to sell them to a pool of potential buyers, and show that this game has at least one equilibrium and that all equilibria are inefficient: reserve prices are not driven to zero.
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Social learning and costly information acquisition
Roberto Burguet,Xavier Vives +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that costly information acquisition prevents an unbounded accumulation of public information if (and only if) the marginal cost to acquire information is positive at zero �$(C^\prime (0) > 0)$¯¯¯¯.
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Trade liberalization, environmental policy, and welfare
Roberto Burguet,Jaume Sempere +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how trade liberalization affects environmental policies in the context of bilateral trade and imperfect competition and find that the incentives to distort environmental protection may be reduced by this move.
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Bribery and Favoritism by Auctioneers in Sealed Bid Auctions
Roberto Burguet,Martin K. Perry +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a first-price procurement auction where the auctioneer can award the contract to a dishonest supplier at the low bid of an honest supplier. And they examine the equilibrium bidding functions of both suppliers when it is common knowledge that the dishonest supplier can bribe the auctioneers.